Roll of thunder, hear my cry: By Mildred D. Taylor (Exploring literature)
10 best books like Roll of thunder, hear my cry: By Mildred D. Taylor (Exploring literature) (Carmela M. Krueser): Yonie Wondernose, Daddy-Long-Legs & Dear Enemy, The Water Princess, Crossing Bok Chitto, Ruby Lee and Me, Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, My Year in the Middle, Look Up!: The Story of the First Woman Astronomer, The Elephant's Child: And Other Just So Stories
| Author | Marguerite de Angeli |
| ISBN | 0385075731 |
Seven-year-old Yonie is a wondernose because he can't keep his nose out of anything and is always getting into trouble. When his parents go away overnight, he's left as the man of the house and promised a special reward if he can keep himself and the farm out of trouble. But that night a bad storm brings trouble--the...
Daddy-Long-Legs & Dear Enemy
| Author | Jean Webster |
| ISBN | 0143039067 |
One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long- Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), also told in letters,...
| Author | Susan Verde |
| ISBN | 0399172580 |
Based on supermodel Georgie Badiel’s childhood, a young girl dreams of bringing clean drinking water to her African village
With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might,...
| Author | Tim Tingle |
| ISBN | 0938317776 |
There is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears, Bok Chitto was a boundary. On one side of the river lived the Choctaws. On the other side lived the plantation owners and their slaves. If a slave escaped...
| Author | Shannon Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0545782309 |
When a segregated North Carolina town gets its first black teacher, two girls--one black, one white--come face-to-face with how prejudice affects their friendship.
Everything's changing for Sarah Beth Willis. After Robin's tragic accident, everyone seems different somehow. Days on...
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
| Author | Ken Mochizuki |
| ISBN | 1584301570 |
In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland. They had come to Hiroki's father with a desperate request: Could consul Sugihara write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat?
The...
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
| Author | Javaka Steptoe |
| ISBN | 0316213888 |
Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw...
| Author | Lila Quintero Weaver |
In a racially polarized classroom in 1970 Alabama, Lu's talent for running track makes her a new best friend — and tests her mettle as she navigates the school's social cliques.
Miss Garrett's classroom is like every other at our school. White kids sit on one side and black kids on the other....
Look Up!: The Story of the First Woman Astronomer
| Author | Robert Burleigh |
| ISBN | 1442481102 |
Henrietta Levitt was the first person to discover the scientific importance of a star’s brightness—so why has no one heard of her? Learn all about a female pioneer of astronomy in this picture book biography.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4, 1868, and she changed the course of...
The Elephant's Child: And Other Just So Stories
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 0486278212 |
Just so Stories is full of colorful tales of how things came to be. Though some stories have words that are just right for the situation others become more confusing with ill placed, advanced vocabulary. The stories included are just right for reading out loud, seeing as it loses its lyrical ring when...
| Author | Graham Salisbury |
| ISBN | 0440229111 |
Fishing. This is it, the big time. Mikey's 13, a deckhand working on a charter boat in Hawaii. Working for the best skipper anywhere, his stepdad, Bill. Before Bill came along, it was just Mikey and his mom. Now they're a real family, and Mikey has a little brother. He can't believe how lucky he is. And now...
| Author | Michael S. Bandy |
| ISBN | 0763665932 |
Based on the true story of one family’s struggle for voting rights in the Civil Rights–era South, this moving tale shines an emotional spotlight on a dark facet of U.S. history.
Life on the farm with Granddaddy is full of hard work, but despite all the chores, Granddaddy always makes time...
| Author | Miska Miles |
| ISBN | 0316571202 |
Summary:
Annie is a young Navajo girl who lives with her mother, father, and grandmother. Grandmother announces one day that she will be rejoining Mother Earth as soon as she finishes weaving her Navajo rug. Annie, distraught at the impending reality of life without Grandmother, begins to sabotage...
This book is by Avi, and is about a 12 year old girl named Morwenna, and her friend named Swen. This story is very attention grabbing, and will leave you guessing what will happen next. If you enjoy fantasy stories then I recommend you read this. In my opinion, the book is a little boring until Morwenna finally...
| Author | Kirby Larson |
| ISBN | 0545840716 |
Fish has a knack for inventing. His annoying neighbor, Olympia, has a knack for messing things up. But when his latest invention leads Fish to Liberty, a beautiful stray dog who needs a home, he and Olympia work together to rescue her.
At the Higgins boatyard, where the boats that just might save...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0670060119 |
Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in...
| Author | Shana Burg |
| ISBN | 0385734700 |
IN KUCKACHOO, MISSISSIPPI, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and follows in his footsteps by attending the black junior high school. But when her careless act leads to her brother’s disappearance and possible murder, Addie Ann, Mama, and Uncle Bump struggle with not knowing if...
What would happen if one day a genuine magician with real magic came to a city of illusionists who live entirely in a world of artifice and sleight of hand?
This is one of the very few books that I have read more than once. It left a very deep impression on me the first time round, aged 13 or so, and not...
The Way to Stay in Destiny
| Author | Augusta Scattergood |
| ISBN | 0545538246 |
From the author of the acclaimed Glory Be, a novel that celebrates baseball, fast piano, and small-town living in the wake of the Vietnam War.
When Theo gets off a bus in Destiny, Florida, he's left behind the only life he's ever known. Now he's got to live with Uncle Raymond, a Vietnam War...
| Author | Gertrude Chandler Warner |
Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in Putnam, Connecticut, on April 16, 1890, to Edgar and Jane Warner. Her family included a sister, Frances, and a brother, John. From the age of five, she dreamed of becoming an author. She wrote stories for her Grandfather Carpenter, and each Christmas she gave...
| Author | Susan Williams Beckhorn |
| ISBN | 1484725530 |
An outcast boy and a young wolf have only each other against an Ice Age winter . . .
Kai burns to become a hunter and to earn a rightful place among his people. But that can never be. He was born with a club foot. It is forbidden for him to use or even touch a hunter’s sacred weapons.
Cut off...
| Author | Conrad Richter |
| ISBN | 0821409794 |
Conrad Richter's trilogy of novels The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) trace the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character.
The Fields continues the saga of the Luckett family...
